Internship/Coop for Credit Program

This application is for the Rutgers Business School (RBS) on the New Brunswick campus and is to be used by RBS-New Brunswick undergraduate students who meet the following criteria prior to the start of the internship/co-op:

Application Criteria 

All RBS-New Brunswick undergraduate students need to have completed at least 60 total credits OR declared their major with junior status. In addition, transfer students need to have completed at least 12 credits at Rutgers. 

Students need to have completed the intro course of the related Internship or Co-op (and passed with a grade of at least a “C”) before they can be registered for the credits related to that internship or Co-op: 

• Accounting Internship or Co-Op: Intro to Financial Accounting (33:010:272)
• BAIT Internship or Co-Op (any 1 of these 3 classes): Statistical Methods in Business (33:136:385), Management Information Systems (33:136:370) or Operations Management (33:136:386)
• Finance Internship or Co-Op: Intro to Financial Management (33:390:300) or Financial Management for Finance Majors (33:390:310) 
• Leadership and Management Internship or Co-Op: Intro to Management (33:620:301)
• Marketing Internship or Co-Op: Intro to Marketing (33:630:301)
• Supply Chain Management Internship or Co-Op: Intro to Supply Chain Management (33:799:301)

Accounting, BAIT, Finance and Leadership/Management majors are able to apply to get general elective credits for their internship or co-op as long as all guidelines are met. A minimum overall GPA of 2.75 is required to apply. Please note that general elective credits do NOT substitute for any classes; they only add to the total number of completed credits once a student successfully completes the internship or co-op along with an associated class that is taken on Canvas.

The Supply Chain Department and Marketing Department offer students with those majors the opportunity to receive major elective credit if students and their respective internships or co-ops meet the required guidelines and students successfully complete the associated class along with the internship/co-op.

IMPORTANT: Although Rutgers University has a few internship/co-op for credit programs, the RBS Program is the only one where Supply Chain and Marketing majors will receive major elective credit for approved positions. 

Please note that the Supply Chain Department does not have a minimum GPA requirement for Supply Chain majors who are seeking Supply Chain elective credit and the Marketing Department requires a GPA of 3.0 or higher for Marketing majors seeking Marketing elective credit!!

Also, note that Supply Chain majors may only take one experiential learning course towards their SCM required courses from among these three categories: Industry Client Projects, Internship in Supply Chain Management, and Co-op in Supply Chain Management. Co-op in Supply Chain Management and Internship in Supply Chain Management for SCM required credits are by application only through the Supply Chain department. If you choose to take Co-op in Supply Chain as your one SCM required course, you will be registered for both 799:421 (SCM Co-op) for SCM credit and 011:482 (Special Topics in Admin Studies) for general elective credit. Any other experiential learning experience after your one allowed for SCM required credit must apply through to the Office of Career Management and you will be registered for general elective credit only.

Marketing majors with approved internships for credit will be registered for 33:630:490 (Marketing Internship).  If you have an approved Marketing Co-op Position, you will be registered for both 33:630:491 (Marketing Co-op) for Marketing major elective credit and 33:011:482 (Special Topics in Administrative Studies) for general elective credit.

• Electronic applications must be fully completed before the designated deadline. Application deadlines can be found in the FAQ section. Please click HERE for the link and make sure to follow all directions!!
• Applicants must be full-time RBS-NB students (registered for at least 12 credits each semester). For graduating seniors in their last semester, part-time status is acceptable.
• Students in the RBS Internship For Credit Program will be expected to work at least 15-20 hours per week totaling at least 180 hours for a minimum of at least 8 continuous weeks in order to earn three (3) credits. Eligible internships can be either paid or unpaid.
• Students in the RBS Co-op For Credit Program will be expected to work a minimum of 30 hours a week, totaling at least 510 hours for a minimum of at least 17 continuous weeks to complete the program and earn six (6) credits. Spring co-ops usually occur during the January-June timeframe and Fall Co-ops are usually in the July-December timeframe. There are no summer co-ops!! Also, all eligible co-op positions MUST be paid.
• Students can only apply and register for an internship/co-op for credit during the semester that they will be working. That is, a student who applies for the fall must work in the fall; applies for the spring, must work in the spring; applies for the summer, must work in the summer. Please note that there are no summer co-op sessions; only spring and fall. IMPORTANT: There are no retroactive credits given after the role is completed.

• PLEASE NOTE: Each internship or co-op for which you are seeking to get credit MUST be with a different employer and in a different semester. All undergraduate business school majors in New Brunswick are eligible to get up to 9 credits through the RBS Internship/Co-op Program for Credit Program (for up to 3 separate internships OR 1 internship and 1 co-op).

  The Supply Chain Management and Marketing Departments are the only ones offering major elective credit for students with those majors who have received approval for their experiential learning experience. Supply Chain students will only get Supply Chain major elective credit for one experience, either an internship or a co-op. Marketing students will only get Marketing major elective credit for one experience in an internship or co-op. Supply Chain and Marketing students can apply to possibly receive general elective credits for any additional internships/co-op positions in which they participate.

• Students who are gainfully employed either on a full or part-time basis may NOT consider their employment for either an internship or Co-op program.
• Completion and submission of the application is the responsibility of the student applicant. As part of the application process students must provide a detailed outline (requiring measurable and verifiable examples) of what is to be learned from the work experience as well as the identification of how the agreed upon outcomes of the learning experience will and can be verified.  In addition, students will need to upload a copy of the hiring company’s offer letter on official company letterhead as well as a detailed job description which we will have the employer confirm.
• The student must obtain from the prospective employer a well-defined and agreed upon outline (with measurable and verifiable examples) of all duties and job assignments the student is expected to perform during an internship or Co-op program.
• Final grades for an internship and/or co-op program are the result of the student's written reports and the student’s performance appraisal provided by the employer at the conclusion of the program. All student written reports will be submitted to the specific associated class via Canvas. Visit the RBS OCM website and Canvas for report requirements and deadlines.
• Supply Chain Management and Marketing majors whose internships/co-ops have been approved for credit by their academic department will receive a letter grade upon successful completion of their position and the associated class on Canvas.
• Accounting, BAIT, Finance and Leadership/Management majors will receive a Pass or Fail grade based on the following:
  Timely submission of required reports, a solid performance evaluation from your employer and successful completion of the internship or co-op.
• IMPORTANT REMINDER for International students in F-1/J-1 status: you MUST receive additional employment authorization from Rutgers Global-International Student and Scholar Services before beginning a paid or unpaid opportunity. Please visit their website on practical training for more details on working off-campus and contact isss-students@global.rutgers.edu with any questions.

QUESTIONS? Contact the New Brunswick Undergraduate Office of Career Management at rbscareers@business.rutgers.edu